Sometimes it’s all about nostalgia and I totally went that route watching the award-winning 1997 blockbuster Good Will Huntingundoubtedly one of the best movies of all time about a talented janitor who works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Like many of us, we Google things about the movies we are watching and while we were doing so, I came across this absolutely hilarious gem of a fun fact from this Ben Affleck It is Matt Damon film.
Matt started writing Good Will Hunting as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. Matt involved his best friend Ben in the writing, and according to Mint dental flossBen and Matt finally decided to sell to Castle Rock after a bidding war.
They stopped the deal when they suspected that no one had actually read the script. It’s common for studios to buy a script without reading it, but when this happens, the studio may try to change things during filming and production.
According to Boston Magazine they decided to write a nonsensical, X-rated scene Good Will Hunting involving Robin Williams who played a therapist to Matt’s character.
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On page 60, they wrote that adult scene and continued to negotiate the script with studios big and small.
O Digital repair The site says Will, played by Damon, walks into Sean’s office, played by Williams, and Sean initiates an explicit sexual encounter with Will.
As expected, no one noticed the senseless scene except one studio.
According to Boston Magazine that one studio actually called the scene asking “What the hell is this?” That’s when they decided to sell Good Will Hunting to the then small studio Miramax Films instead of the big ones.
This is definitely one of the best movie trivia facts out there.
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